Your điện thoại thông minh might give sầu you a wake up gọi, skết thúc you emails, help you to lớn order a high-tốc độ rail ticket & khổng lồ book a hotel room for the weekover conference, _.* (A) just khổng lồ name a few (B) for example
I"d certainly choose (A), but I don"t think I can adequately explain lớn my students their difference, except perhaps that for example seems to rarely follow such a long danh sách of items containing phrases.
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For example is the correct answer for that multiple choice question. Just to lớn name a few is wrong because the phrase a few, which functions as a pronoun because it replaces the missing phrase has many functions, refers khổng lồ nothing. The full sentence would be something like this:
Your điện thoại thông minh, which has many functions, might give sầu you a wake up gọi, sover you emails, và help you order a high-speed rail ticket or book a hotel room for a weekover conference, just khổng lồ name a few. Bạn đang xem: To name a few là gì
Without the relative sầu clause, the answer has to lớn be for example:
Because the first sentence is only implied, just lớn name a few is semantically incorrect.
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answered May 2 "13 at 9:09
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AndyC: Yes, of course "a few" refers to those functions, but this is a question of syntax as well as semantics. Because the semantics don't support the use of that pronoun because there's no referent, there can be no pronoun. The point is not that the sentence can't be understood once the reader thinks about it a bit, but that when writing, one does not want khổng lồ create discourse that forces the reader khổng lồ make unnecessary inferences or to have to stop reading & think about awkward syntax. –user21497 May 3 "13 at 3:53
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This is quite different from poetry & Finnegans Wake, which demand that you read slowly, reread, reread, & reread, và then think hard about what you've read. Most language is used to lớn communicate as clearly as possible, except, of course, where the writers và speakers are interested in bamboozling the audience: politicians, confidence men, advertisers, và liars or other types. Your sentence is standard expository prose & shouldn't prompt the reader or listener to ask "'To name a few' what?" –user21497 May 3 "13 at 3:58
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